This document discusses challenges and issues related to integrating information and communication technology (ICT) into teaching and learning in Malaysian schools. It outlines several government initiatives to promote ICT use such as Smart Schools, electronic books, and notebook computers for students. However, there are ongoing financial, capacity building, and infrastructure challenges. These include the high costs of hardware, software, maintenance and teacher training, as well as insufficient ICT infrastructure and technical support in some schools. Potential solutions center around being prudent with funding, increasing teacher ICT skills through more training, and using technologies like satellite to overcome infrastructure gaps in rural areas.

1. SSI 3013 INFORMATION AND
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN
SCIENCE
LECTURER: ENCIK AZMI IBRAHIM
GROUP MEMBERS:
1. CHAN SU FANG D 20101037450
2. CHANG PEI XIAN D 20101037455
3. ROCHELLE TANG NGA NING D 20101037537

2. INTRODUCTION

3. Various initiatives have been introduced to
procure the greater establishment and diffusion
of ICT to improve capacities in:
 Education
 Business
 Life
In order to fulfill “Vision 2020”, transformation
had been made on education system:
 ICT-enabled Smart School.
 Training of teachers, staffs and
administrators
 Electronic books
 E-learning

4. PROBLEM STATEMENT
 ICT application had become an important part of
teaching and learning. The Ministry of
Education has invested a huge effort in terms of
funding and training to equip teachers and
students with ICT skills. In your opinion, what
are the issues and challenges in integrating ICT
in teaching and learning in our Malaysian
Schools?

5. FACTS:
Nowadays, ICT application plays
an important role in schools.
Huge effort in terms of funding
and training has been made to
equip ICT skills to the teachers
and students.

6. Many school Senior teachers
practice to apply are not well
ICT skills in equipped with ICT
teaching process. skills.
IDEAS
Government Students are keen
faces financial on studying using
problems ICT

7. LEARNING ISSUES:
What are the What are the
issues related challenges
to ICT related to ICT
application in application in
Malaysian Malaysian
schools? schools?

8. ACTION PLANS:
Searching Having group Go to library
information discussion to find
through internet among group related
members. information

9. ISSUES

10. Multimedia
Super
Corridor
(MSC)
Electronic Smart
book School
Issues
Notebook 1
Malaysia
PPSMI
Free
Giveaways

11. ELECTRONIC BOOK
 In 2001, the Ministry initiated the Electronic Book Project
to see how this device can be used to improve teaching
and learning and solving the perennial problem of heavy
school bags.
 The Electronic Book project :-
was conducted in 35 schools
over a period of five months.
the device does improve
computer and technology
knowledge, as well as engaged
students in reading and learning.

12. MULTIMEDIA SUPER CORRIDOR
(MSC)
 The Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) was
established in 1996 with the aspiration of becoming
a global hub for ICT and multimedia operation,
innovation and services to transform Malaysia into
a knowledge-economy and achieve developed
nation status in line with Vision 2020.

13.  This corridor houses core MSC initiatives which
include high technology project :-
Smart
Telemedicine
School
Multipurpose
Smart Card E-Business
System
Development
Cluster

14. SMART SCHOOL
 Smart School is defined as an initiative which uses
a technology platform as a medium on which
distance learning and specific teaching expertise
are made available to remote locations.
 Smart School Qualification Standards (SSQS) is
globally positioned to highlight the need for effective
performance monitoring and evaluate the
performance of ICT for Development programmes.

15.  The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in SSQS
include:-
utilization human capital
applications set the
and technology accepted
infrastructure conditions
assign scores
upon which the
Star Ranking is
based

16. NOTEBOOK 1MALAYSIA
 The distribution of free notebook 1Malaysia is an
important project in support of High Speed
Broadband (HSBB) and National Broadband
Initiative (NBI) to achieve broadband penetration of
75% by 2015.
 To supply the laptops, a sum of RM 1 billion was
allocated under the Universal Service Provision
(USP) fund.

17.  The four main objectives of USP are:-
providing the access of communication to
groups and individuals in areas with poor
coverage
improving usage of ICT in the community
towards a knowledgeable society
contributing to the social economic
development of local communities
minimizing the digital divide

18. TEACHING SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS IN
ENGLISH (PPSMI)
 PPSMI is a government policy aimed to improve the
English language level among primary and
secondary school students in 2003.
 Government had launched a program called
Teaching and Learning Science, Mathematics and
English (SME) in secondary schools by using and
integrating ICT application.

19.  Government spend lots of money to provide :-
training
textbooks activity books teacher glossary book
teacher's CD- MyCD
ROM science
practical book

20. CHALLENGES

21. FINANCIAL
PROBLEMS
CAPACITY BUILDING
INFRASTRUCTURE

22. FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
Lack of
finance:
Need to balance the
High educational goals with
Cost of: our country’s economic
realities.
Training of
Hardware Software Maintenance
staff

23. CAPACITY BUILDING
 Teachers without ICT skills prefer the
traditional method of teaching.
 Lackof ICT technical support specialist to
carry out the installation, operation and
maintenance for:
 Technicalequipment
 Network administration
 Network security

24. INFRASTRUCTURE
 For those old building, government has to retrofit
and well-equipped with:-
Proper Availability of
electrical electricity and
wiring telephony
Internet
Ventilation
security
Safety

25.  Insufficient infrastructure in some of the schools:-
Computers Printers Interactive
whiteboards
Spreadsheets Computer
laboratory

26. SOLUTIONS

27. • Malaysia should be prudent in making decisions
Financial about suitability of the models of ICT to be used.
• Potential sources of money and resources for ICT
problems use programs: public subsidies, fund raising
events, community support, etc.
• Raise up the awareness of teachers about the
Capacity importance of ICT skills in teaching.
• Provide more training to build more technical
Building support specialists.
• Satellite TV can be used in rural areas to act as
supplementary tool to overcome the shortage of
Infrastructure ICT infrastructure.
• Satellite Internet-link can be used in those
schools without telephone lines.